Why the Wii U Is Destined to Become the Next Sega Dreamcast

[Mr Puggsly]

fillet said:

Mr Puggsly said:

fillet said:
Just read the actual article - didn't need to bother before as clearly moronic to compare the 2 without even needing to look into it.

The article is factually incorrect. The Wii-U didn't start out to great sales, the Dreamcast didn't get massive press/media interest, the Dreamcast didn't not sell well because of the PS2, The Sega Saturn was not a "cult success at best". It was an abysmal failure, though not as bad as the 32x of course.

That's just for starters.

The internet is great and everything but people getting a public voice like that article writer are one of the negatives.

I think the Sega Saturn was actually profitable. It wasn't until the Dreamcast that Sega started losing money. So I wouldn't call the Saturn a failure per se.

Wasn't aware of that. I know it did enjoy success for the first year or so and it only nose dived as the "Playstation" brand became a household one.

(by which time I jumped ship and cashed out to the PS1 as many did).

Well the Saturn was like $400 at launch (not sold at a loss) while the Dreamcast was only $200. Also, we can presume the price to game development went way up from Saturn to Dreamcast. Shenmue for example had one the biggest budgets of the time.

I guess their efforts to make the Dreamcast competitively priced and cutting edge just cost them too much money.